Hello, Ken

Thanks for your great work. I love the efficiency stats.

A stat I would like to see kept somewhere is offensive rebounding percentage (plus defensive rebounding percentage = rebounding efficiency). As I’m sure you know, OR% = OR/missed FGA. DR% = DR/opponents’ missed FGA.

Michael

I’m going to use Michael’s idea with a few changes, defining offensive rebounding percentage as,

OR% = your offensive rebounds / (your offensive rebounds + their defensive rebounds)

and defensive rebounding percentage as,

DR% = your defensive rebounds / (your defensive rebounds + their offensive rebounds)

Then the two percentages can be summed to get Total Rebounding (TR). When TR is greater than 100, a team is better at getting rebounds than its opponents. TR is a much better way to measure rebounding ability than the NCAA’s stat of choice, average rebounding margin, because TR eliminates the effect of shooting percentage.

If your opponent misses many more shots than you, you tend to get more rebounds because there are more opportunities for defensive rebounds, which are easier to get than offensive rebounds. I offered an example of this in a post last season. TR is a true measure of a team’s ability to rebound the basketball relative to the competition they have faced.

So check out the stats page and see how your team stacks up in this category.

As always, you can [email protected] with suggestions for the next Stat O’ the Week or with questions like: What the hell are you talking about?